So, I super hyped up the fact that I was doing a TedX - that is, an independently organized TED talk. I hyped it up because it was something I'd dreamed of doing. I'd hoped that one day I would have the opportunity to step on the red circle carpet with a huge screen… Continue reading My TedX Talk – What You See & What Was Really Happening OR How NOT to do a TEDx
Author: Vanessa Shields
Writer. Mother. Lover.
Into Week Two
Yesterday I was nervous for no reason. Or, wait, I was nervous because I didn't have anything to be nervous about. Does that ever happen to you? So my 'work on my own stuff' promise to myself for 2018 is going well enough. But it feels really, really weird. Like, I have a list of things… Continue reading Into Week Two
Twenty-Eighteen, Baby
I feel different. How about you? Twenty-seventeen was a jarring blur most of the time. It was a year of grand opportunities resulting in grand failures that rocked me to my core. Life lessons burst[ed] (is that a word?) forth like flowers blooming in one of those time-lapse videos. If my life last year were… Continue reading Twenty-Eighteen, Baby
VANESSA SHIELDS 